Ford Sterling
Also Known As: George Ford Stich Jr., George Ford Stich, Albert Williams
Biography: Ford Sterling (born George Stitch; November 3, 1883 – October 13, 1939) was an American comedian and actor best known for his work with Keystone Studios. One of the 'Big 4', he was the original chief of the Keystone Cops.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 03, 1883
Age: 141 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 13, 1939
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Between Showers
Overview: Mr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the Tramp appears and intervenes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-28
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Alice in Wonderland
Overview: In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-18
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He Who Gets Slapped
Overview: After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-22
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The Trouble With Wives
Overview: William Hyatt (Tom Moore) runs an exclusive shoe store, and his happy marriage to Grace (Florence Vidor) is nearly derailed by his well-meaning, but hopelessly gauche pal, Al Hennessy (Sterling). Dagmar, a Parisian shoe designer (Esther Ralston) has come to town to meet with Hyatt and Hennessy, and Hennessy describes the situation to Grace in the worst possible manner, convincing her that her husband is having an affair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-28
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Sporting Goods
Overview: Sports-loving inventor Richard Shelby develops an "Elasto-Tweed" golf suit then hits the road in hopes of making a few sales. Along the way, he meets Alice Elliott, who mistakes Shelby for millionaire sportsman Timothy Stanfield (Claude King). Forced to go through with the masquerade, Shelby ends up spending what little money he has, and then some.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-11
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Wife Savers
Overview: While stationed in Switzerland, soldiers Louis and Rodney fall in love with local damsel Colette, much to the dismay of Colette's self-appointed boyfriend General Lavoris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-07
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Drums of the Desert
Overview: John Curry is a friend of the Navajos who fails in his attempts to keep the white man from exploiting the tribe's secret altars. Realizing that there is oil to be found on the reservation, evil Will Newton gains entry to the area by posing as a trail guide for Elias Manton, an archeologist, and his daughter Mary.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-04
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Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Overview: Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short Subject (Comedy), but was disqualified.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-15
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Across the Hall
Overview: Across the Hall
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-23
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His Father's Footsteps
Overview: About a boy growing up and acting like this abusive, alcoholic father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-28
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A Film Johnnie
Overview: The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-02
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Tango Tangles
Overview: In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-09
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A Thief Catcher
Overview: Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-19
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Miss Brewster's Millions
Overview: Polly Brewster, a penniless Hollywood model/movie extra inherits one million dollars. But her new lawyer, Tom Hancock, informs her that she has to spend it all within 30 days to inherit $5 million more from her spiteful Uncle Ned Brewster who tries to prevent it from happening.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-22
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Hollywood
Overview: Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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His Lying Heart
Overview: His Lying Heart is a silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-20
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The Show Off
Overview: A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young bride and then drives her family's finances to the brink of ruin.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-16
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Behind the Green Lights
Overview: A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal lawyer (Sidney Blackmer).
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-11
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Her Majesty, Love
Overview: The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner. They encourage Fred to break the engagement. Lia goes to Berlin to marry a Baron von Schwarzdorf, and Fred arrives too late to stop the marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-15
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Why Beaches Are Popular
Overview: This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-10
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Sergeant Hofmeyer
Overview: A police officer attempts to steal a go-cart from a child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-07
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The Water Nymph
Overview: Mabel and her sweetheart go to the beach and play a trick on the boyfriend's father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-23
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A Grocery Clerk's Romance
Overview: Ford arranged for lazy Brown to be kidnapped and dynamited by thugs, so that he can move in and marry Mrs. Brown. Locations include Rambo's Hotel, First Street in Coytesville, New Jersey, and Ford Lee, New Jersey area, probably in July or early August.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-28
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Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
Overview: When Mabel romantically rejects a villain, he ties her to the railroad tracks, leaving her bashful suitor to appeal to famous racecar driver Barney Oldfield for help.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-02
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Stage Struck
Overview: Daydreaming waitress Jennie Hagen fantasizes about becoming a famous actress, while in reality she and her cook boyfriend, Orme Wilson, hope to one day own their own diner. Although Orme loves Jennie, he also has a weakness for stage stars -- so when a riverboat theatrical crew comes to their town, he is smitten by lead actress Lillian Lyons. Desperate to keep Orme, Jennie insists on going onstage to best Lillian, but is soon out of her depth.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-16
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A Muddy Romance
Overview: Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soon the Keystone Kops arrive on the scene, and chaos quickly ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-19
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Dirty Work in a Laundry
Overview: After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry press.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-19
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Hide and Seek
Overview: A banker's young daughter, playing a game of "hide and seek", is apparently locked within the vault resulting in comedic rescue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-03
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The Gusher
Overview: Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings very clearly felt. Even in this early comedy her natural fun comes through. The one she really loves is clumsy yokel Ford Sterling, who is determined to buy an oil well that the con man has for sale. The conman gets a local fellow to pour oil over the property. Ford falls for it and buys it - Mabel and he are to be married. Then the fellow confesses that it was just a scam - there was no oil.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-14
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Cohen Saves the Flag
Overview: Cohen and his rival Goldberg enlist in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Goldberg receives a lieutenant’s commission while Cohen becomes a sergeant. During the Battle of Gettysburg, Cohen inadvertently becomes a hero when he tosses back an enemy hand grenade and raises a fallen flag in the midst of the conflict. Goldberg conspires to have Cohen shot by a firing squad, but Cohen’s girlfriend Rebecca rides to the rescue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-26
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Peeping Pete
Overview: This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and chases him all over town with sheriff and family close behind. Fatty Arbuckle plays the peeper's wife(!).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-22
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Toplitsky and Company
Overview: Toplitsky runs a second-hand clothing shop, but his partner "admires" his wife. Two conniving businessmen, intent on gaining a place in the store, inform Toplitsky of an upcoming tryst. A runaway bear adds to the complications.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-25
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A Strong Revenge
Overview: Cobbler Meyer puts Limburger cheese in the shoes of grocer Schnitz to sabotage his attendance with Mabel at a house party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-09
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Fatty and the Broadway Stars
Overview: Fatty and the Broadway Stars is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-15
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The Headline Woman
Overview: When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-14
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Keystone Hotel
Overview: The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies. The Keystone Kops are summoned, and arrive just in time to get plastered with pastry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-21
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Double Crossed
Overview: Ford Sterling and Mack Swain are a couple of neighborhood toughs who fight over Emma Clifton and get involved in burglary in this Keystone from 1914.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-25
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Our Dare-Devil Chief
Overview: A gang of thieves continually threaten or attempt to kill the Mayor, always setting up the bumbling Chief of Police as the culprit. The Chief's very friendly relationship with the Mayor's wife doesn't help. When the Mayor's valuables are stolen the Chief is given a chance to redeem himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-09
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Many Unhappy Returns
Overview: Ford Sterling is married to a very jealous wife, who has a hobby of collecting French dolls. In order to keep her appeased and unsuspecting. he buys her an expensive doll for her birthday. But before he can give it to her, he gets mixed up with the blonde at the cigar-store, the doll gets burned up, and his wife is also burned up about many things.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-14
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Spring Is Here
Overview: Musical about two sisters in love with the same man.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-13
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The Waiters' Picnic
Overview: Louis, the chef and Oscar, the head waiter, are in love with Mabel the pretty cashier. The Waiters' picnic is held, and Mabel is the cause of much trouble between Louis and Oscar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-16
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A Bandit
Overview: Willy is a rather effeminate young man, and is abused by the town bully. He suspects that the bully is a coward at heart, so disguises himself as a bandit and shoots up the town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-22
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The Speed Kings
Overview: Race-car drivers pursue Mabel Normand, whose father has a clear favorite.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-30
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Bride of the Regiment
Overview: As they are leaving the church following their wedding, Count Adrian Beltrami and Countess Anna-Marie are told that the Austrians are marching on the town to quell an Italian uprising. The bride and relatives induce the count to flee to his castle, but Tangy, a silhouette cutter, brings word from the revolutionary committee asking him to return; the count goes, asking Tangy to pose as the count and protect Anna-Marie.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-21
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Kismet
Overview: Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-30
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For the Love of Mabel
Overview: A presumably lost film starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-30
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Rastus and the Game Cock
Overview: Rastus and the Game Cock is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mack Sennett.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-03
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Safe in Jail
Overview: Safe in jail is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Edgar Kennedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-07
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Love and Rubbish
Overview: Love and Rubbish is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Charles Avery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-14
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Love and Courage
Overview: Love and Courage is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-21
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Professor Bean's Removal
Overview: Professor Bean's Removal is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mabel Normand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-31
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Mabel's Dramatic Career
Overview: A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman whom she considers more suitable. Mabel confronts the young woman, and is dismissed from her position. Later, when the young man learns about the new career that Mabel has found, he begins to act in an agitated and unpredictable manner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-08
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The Fatal Taxicab
Overview: The Fatal Taxicab is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-18
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When Dreams Come True
Overview: A husband who has spent a convivial night is sleeping off the effects in bed while his devoted wife ministers for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-22
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A Small Time Act
Overview: A Small Time Act is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Roscoe Arbuckle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-10
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Wine
Overview: Wine is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Ford Sterling.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-13
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His Sister's Kids
Overview: His Sister's Kids is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-13
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Some Nerve
Overview: Some Nerve is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Dot Farley.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-25
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In the Clutches of the Gang
Overview: In the Clutches of the Gang is a 1914 movie starring Ford Sterling and George Nichols.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-17
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A Robust Romeo
Overview: A Robust Romeo is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Emma Bell Clifton.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-12
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Her Birthday Present
Overview: Two thieves burgle a necklace from a policeman, but then begin to quarrel between themselves, leading to a shootout.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-14
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Hearts and Flowers
Overview: A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-22
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Show Girl in Hollywood
Overview: Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-20
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Casey at the Bat
Overview: Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York scout signs him up, so Casey and his equally dishonest manager go to the big leagues. Eventually, the scout and manager conspire to get him drunk and bet against him for a crucial game with the pennant at stake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-08
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Overview: Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-02
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Don't Weaken!
Overview: A dancing instructor gets involved with a newly rich family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-05
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The Day of Faith
Overview: Jane Maynard opens a mission in memory of philanthropist Bland Hendricks. John Anstell, son of a powerful and selfish millionaire, Michael Anstell, falls in love with Jane, to the old man's disapproval. Anstell tries to undermine Jane's work by hiring reporter Tom Barnett to write an unfavorable story about the mission.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-20
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Sally
Overview: Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing. Working as a waitress, she serves Blair (Alexander Gray), and they both fall for each other, but Blair is engaged to socialite Marcia. Sally is hired to impersonate a famous Russian dancer named Noskerova, but at that engagement, she is found to be a phoney. Undaunted, she proceeds with her life and has a show on Broadway, but she still thinks of Blair.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-12
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Their First Execution
Overview: A new electric chair has been installed in the prison, and the officials impatiently await the first execution. The victim, with careless disregard for their feelings, makes his escape from the prison. The sleuth goes in pursuit, and finding the discarded convict's garb dons it as a disguise, hoping to meet the hunted man and ingratiate himself. Prison guards capture the sleuth, and disliking to disappoint the waiting crowd, decide to execute him. He is placed in the chair and the current turned on, but he stubbornly resists death. The current is doubled and trebled, to no avail. Meanwhile the real criminal has been captured, and he is brought back in time to save the sleuth from his perilous position.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-14
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On His Wedding Day
Overview: When some pranksters pour red pepper on a new groom's bouquet, the wedding becomes a hijinks factory.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-31
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A Fishy Affair
Overview: A man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the man's house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-24
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Black Sheep
Overview: On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized by a jewel thief. The young man turns out to be his son he's not seen since infancy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-01
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Her Torpedoed Love
Overview: A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-13
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For the Love of Mike
Overview: Three men join forces to raise an adopted son. A lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-31
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The Knockout
Overview: To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-11
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The Strangers' Banquet
Overview: In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John Trevelyan, an anarchist labor agitator. Derith's brother John is off in pursuit of an adventuress, and Angus Campbell, her superintendent, resigns in exasperation. Angus returns, however, to help Derith persuade Trevelyan to settle a strike, which Trevelyan accomplishes in spite of being shot by one of his own men.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-31
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That Little Band Of Gold
Overview: A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-14
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The Ragtime Band
Overview: Professor Smelts the band leader gets into a romantic rivalry with one of his musicians over the affections of a pretty girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-01
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Everybody's Acting
Overview: Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the troupe adopted and raised her. When grown, she has become the leading lady in a San Francisco stock-company. She meets and falls in love with Ted, the millionaire son of a rich widow, but she thinks he is only a tax-cab driver. His mother objects to the romance and looks into Doris' past. She learns that her father had murdered, in a fit of jealousy, her mother, and tells Doris what she has found out. The four actors who had raised her had never told her how she happened to become an orphan. They persuade Ted's mother to send him on a voyage to the Orient in order to get him away from Doris. But they neglected to tell the mother they had also booked passage for Doris on the same ship.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-04
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The Girl in the Show
Overview: In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decide to marry and settle down. The lead actor helps set up the rest of the troupe with some performances. He then destroys the new marriage. Later the woman and the head actor fall in love. He then gives her the lead role in his newest show.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-30
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Only a Messenger Boy
Overview: Keystone silent comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-23
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Mike
Overview: A Modest Comedy Drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-10
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The Snow Cure
Overview: The Snow Cure is a silent Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-22
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Court House Crooks
Overview: A farce involving an esteemed judge, his young wife, and the District Attorney she's seeing on the side; Misplaced jewelry and a message written on a mirror lead to the DA's undoing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-05
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Gentleman Burglar
Overview: Baffles, Gentleman Burglar
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-16
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Days of Thrills and Laughter
Overview: An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-21
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Cohen Collects a Debt
Overview: After second hand clothier Cohen receives $1000 from a rival firm (unaware that the amount was borrowed to force his bankruptcy), he must dodge a disguise-wearing bill collector. Filmed in the For Lee, New Jersey area, probably in July or early August, 1912.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-23
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Riley and Schultze
Overview: A constable and his sergeant are rivals for a girl, and to impress her they both attempt to apprehend an escaped convict. Probably the first Keystone film with comedic cops; Keystone trade ads upon its release heralded as, "An uproarious 'Cop' picture."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-29
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The New Neighbor
Overview: When a new neighbor attempts to save a young wife from an intruder, her husband misunderstands; the jealous husband raises a ruckus and winds up in court, where the judge turns out to be the new neighbor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-29
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The Beating He Needed
Overview: Effeminate college boy Mace is sent West by father Sterling to make a man out of him, but Mace only responds to a severe beating.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-07
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Pedro's Dilemma
Overview: Mack attempts to elope with Mabel, but her friend dons the veil; this confuses both Mack and Mabel's dad Sterling - who trails the couple with the intention of breaking things up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-07
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Stolen Glory
Overview: Veteran Warner and old gardener Burns vie for the hand of Widow Simpson, and the gardener steals the former's uniform and joins in the ranks of a parade, pursued by his rival. Utilizes footage shot during a Thomas Ince battle production at Inceville, the Grand Army of the Republic parade in downtown Los Angeles which commenced at 9:30am PST on September 11, 1912 (including starting area at 5th and Los Angeles and viewing stands near finish by Courthouse at Broadway and Temple), and other G.A.R. festivities at the National Soldiers' Home at Sawtelle in Los Angeles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-14
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The Ambitious Butler
Overview: A cocky butler poses as a Count to win an heiress during his master's absence, but his scheme is foiled by the chef whom he snubbed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-21
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The Flirting Husband
Overview: Mrs. Smith's friends decide to teach her flirty husband a lesson by engaging him in a saucy game of "blind man's bluff" for his wife's discovery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-21
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At Coney Island
Overview: Mack takes Mabel to Coney Island, only to have her stolen by slick Ford, who is temporarily out of sight of a watchful wife and children.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-28
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Mabel's Lovers
Overview: At a summer resort, Mabel puts ugly bumps under her bathing suit to discourage fair-weather suitors; however, Black sees her doing it, and earns the inside track to her affections.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-04
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At It Again
Overview: Mrs. Smith hired detectives to trail her husband, whom she believes is being unfaithful; police chief Larkin gets mistaken for Mr. Smith by the detectives, who raise hell when they catch him "cheating". Based on an extant still, this is the first verifiable Keystone Comedy to feature a group of comic cops.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-04
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The Deacon's Troubles
Overview: The minister is appointed head of a purity league designed to keep a risque dancer from performing her act; however, the deacon becomes infatuated with the girl at an amusement park and has his picture taken with her, which causes much scandal and blackmail.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-11
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A Temperamental Husband
Overview: Brown is insanely jealous of his wife and mistakes her brother for a lover, while the Brown's child is kidnapped by an evil tramp.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-11
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The Rivals
Overview: Mabel prefers conceited Fred to earnest rube Mack, but when she is held up by tramps Fred runs out on her and leaves Mack to rescue her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-18
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Mr. Fixit
Overview: Bashful Mack has his friend Fred take flowers and presents to his girl Mabel by proxy, but the "friend" takes advantage and lures her to the altar in Mack's place.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-18
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A Bear Escape
Overview: Sleuths Mack and Fred go after bandit Ford, but wind up tied to a tree by the crook with a ferocious bear approaching.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-25
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Chicken à la King
Overview: A married tightwad learns to loosen up by living the life of a playboy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-09
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So Big
Overview: After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-28
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Good and Naughty
Overview: Four middle-aged actors jointly adopt an orphaned baby girl, raising her in a backstage milieu.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-07
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The Road to Glory
Overview: May McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-07
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Overview: Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This film is believed lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-22
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Love and Glory
Overview: During an uprising in Algeria in 1869, two Frenchmen--Anatole, the brother of Gabrielle, and Pierre, her sweetheart--join the colors and are later reported dead. Gabrielle is kidnaped and taken to Paris, and the soldiers return.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-07
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A Quiet Fourth
Overview: An RKO comedy short featuring Betty Grable who gets secretly married while her family is trying to fix her up with someone wealthy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-08
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The American Venus
Overview: A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most competitive rival in the cosmetics business. Chip Armstrong, a hot-shot public relations man, quits the employ of Hugo Niles and goes to work for Gray, persuading Mary to enter the Miss America contest at Atlantic City, with the intention of using her to endorse her father's cold cream should she win. Mary breaks her engagement with Horace. When it appears that she will win the contest, Hugo lures her home on the pretext that her father is ill, and she misses the contest. Chip and Mary return to Atlantic City, discovering that the new Miss America has told the world that she owes all her success to Gray's cold cream. On this note, Chip and Mary decide to get married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-31
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Wild Oranges
Overview: Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from justice, also lives there and is terrorizing them - and he's interested in Millie. One day widower John Woolfolk, sailing on his yacht, happens upon the island. Soon he and Millie fall in love. Will jealous Nicholas stand for this?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-20
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A Deaf Burglar
Overview: The misfortunes of a deaf burglar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-13
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A Healthy Neighborhood
Overview: An unscrupulous doctor tries to drum up business by having the sidewalk in front of his house covered with banana skins, inviting slip-and-fall injuries. Guess you couldn't get sued for that in 1913. Later, he mistakenly gives a patient some poison for medicine, causing her father to blackjack the quack.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-12
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My Lady's Lips
Overview: A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story falls in love with the gang's female leader, and when the two are caught in a police raid, they find themselves in equal amounts of trouble.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-01
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The Brass Bottle
Overview: Horace Ventimore, a young London architect, stumbles across an old brass bottle. When he picks it up a genie suddenly appears and promises Horace that he will grant every wish Horace wants in exchange for his freedom. Horace accepts the genie's offer but finds out that things aren't working out quite as well as he thought they would.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-22
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He Wouldn't Stay Down
Overview: A man plots to kill a friend and marry his wife in order to get hold of insurance money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-02
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The Fall of Eve
Overview: Tom Ford, Jr., keeps secret his romance with his father's secretary, Eve Grant. Ford, Sr., enlists Eve to entertain out-of-town buyer Mr. Mack. When Mack's wife insists on joining the nightclub party, Eve is introduced as Mrs. Ford. While listening to a radio broadcast from the nightclub, Mrs. Ford is alarmed by the announcement that a certain dance tune has been requested by "Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ford." Ford enlists his son to help extricate him from his difficulties with the boorish couple. Tom agrees to help if Ford, Sr., will consent to his marriage. After the party moves to the Ford home, the intoxicated Mr. Mack and his corpulent wife decide to stay the night. As they are about to retire, Mrs. Ford returns and calls the police, having seen an unfamiliar figure raiding her icebox. Tom explains the situation to everyone's satisfaction and introduces Eve as his bride.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-17
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Oh Kay!
Overview: On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to sea and she is rescued by a passing rumrunner bound for the Long Island Sound. Once they arrive in the States, Kay makes her escape and hides in the deserted mansion of Jimmy Winter. Jimmy is due to marry the following day. He comes home to the mansion unexpectedly, and finds Kay, who persuades him to let her pose for a night as his wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-26
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All Business
Overview: Another hotel-room mix-up with the suspicious wife, Grace King (Josephine Whittell), checking up on her husband, Ford King (Ford Sterling),who is trying to sell his jewelry line to a lady buyer, Frances Brown (Kitty McHugh). The house detective (Edgar Dearing) gets involved and the room-service waiter, (Billy Dooley), constantly gets himself and his tray knocked over.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-14
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Love and Vengeance
Overview: Ford Sterling in the park courting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-23
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
Overview: This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Hoffmeyer's Legacy
Overview: Hoffmeyer is harassed by creditors, but thinks his troubles are over when he receives a legacy of $500. He sneaks away from his wife to make a "flash" around town, and comes home at 2 A.M., feeling happy. His joy is short-lived, however, when he finds the door locked, and his spouse on the other side demands the money before she will permit him to enter. He takes half of it and hides it under a barrel, and his wife, peeping behind the curtain, sees him. After he has retired she goes out to get the rest of the money, and Hoffmeyer locks the door and refuses to let her in until she sends in the money. Clad in her nightgown, she is being thoroughly chilled, when she sees men approaching and runs away.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-23
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A Life in the Balance
Overview: A Keystone Kops short about a landlord discovering three "anner-kist" tenants building a bomb.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-14
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The Spoilers
Overview: Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-26
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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Overview: Julian (Percy Marmont) is a poor artist who lives with wife Edith (Alice Joyce) and their newborn baby in Harlem. Struggling to make ends meet, he foregoes his artistic calling and draws for magazines. Reaching his limits, Julian convinces his wife he could reach higher grounds if he were to go to Paris. He moves to Paris while his Edith works at a shop on Fifth Avenue. Each of their lives evolves differently—Edith is courted by a wealthy suitor whom she ignores while pining for her husband, while Julian fails to meet his goals in Paris, returning defeated three years later. The meeting highlight how different their routes have been.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-08
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The Golden Age of Comedy
Overview: A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-26
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Figures Don't Lie
Overview: Figures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one scene proves the accuracy of the title by donning a fetching one-piece bathing suit. The main story concerns wise-guy insurance salesman Richard Arlen, who through a combination of hard work and sheer gall lands a job as sales manager. But he can't land heroine Ralston, who has remained cool to his charms ever since he tried to make a play for her on the street. A lost film.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-08
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Mabel’s Adventures
Overview: Mabel poses as "Cousin Jack" in a scheme to test her two quarreling suitors who decide to take young "Jack" to a cabaret.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-16
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Stranded in Paris
Overview: American shop-girl Julie McFadden, wins a free passage to Paris; en route she meets Robert Van Wye, who has to kiss her when she loses a sack race. In Paris, Julie finds her proposed residence destroyed, and while waiting for Bob her purse is snatched; in the ensuing chase she gets lost and enters a dressmaker shop, where the two owners are in dire need of an English-speaking girl to deliver some gowns. Accidentally she is given free entry to the apartment of Countess Pasada and is shown to her rooms; the count is in his pajamas when she emerges from her bath, and she locks him in the bathroom.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-13
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The Woman on the Jury
Overview: The story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but had deserted her...and of a woman on the jury who refused to condemn her when eleven men had voted guilty...a woman brave enough to defy public opinion, brave enough to lose the loss of the love of her husband by baring her soul to the world in order to save the girl on trial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-20
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The Deacon Outwitted
Overview: The deacon's daughter, Betty, is in love with Harold Price. The deacon wants to buy a horse from Harry's father, but because Mr. Price will not give it to him at his own figure the deacon quarrels with Price, and forbids his daughter to see Harry. A troupe of minstrels, stranded, are walking back to New York, and Harry and Betty meet them. They make up as actors, and, accompanied by their new-found friends, rush to the deacon's home and tell him they are an eloping couple who wish to be married. The deacon ties the knot, and after the ceremony the make-up is removed, and he finds he has officiated at his own daughter's wedding. He finally sees the humor of the situation, and his charitable spirit is shared by Harry's father, who makes him a present of the horse he coveted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-27
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The Inventor’s Secret
Overview: An old toymaker invents an automatic doll and goes to the lawyers to apply for a patent. That day a young girl is reported missing, and Dan, the cop, receives word that a reward of $500 is offered for solving the mystery of her disappearance. Dan's sweetheart gets a position as cook in the inventor's family, and catching a glimpse of the doll, thinks it is the missing girl. Dan for a while has a vision of $500, only to wake up to find both he and his sweetheart out of a job.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-23
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For Lizzie's Sake
Overview: A villain attempts to win the love of a pretty fisher girl, who is in love with a village youth. The villain finally kidnaps the girl and carries her out to a rock at low tide, where he ties her. He stands on the shore hoping that the rising water will force her to promise to marry him. The water rises higher and higher, tremendous waves dashing over the girl, and when it seems impossible for her to live another minute her sweetheart arrives with a crowd of the village people and rescues her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-20
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Father’s Choice
Overview: Father wants Mabel to marry a little, wealthy shrimp. She is in love with Charlie, a big, strapping fellow. Mabel is locked up in the house, but her lover sets the house on fire, and In the confusion runs to the minister's house with her. Father and his choice pursue, but Mabel and her lover hide in the chimney. Father sticks around with a big gun, and Mabel and her lover make up as negroes and are married, father being persuaded to act as best man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-10
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The Foreman of the Jury
Overview: Jones is broke. His girl is giving a birthday party, and her various suitors give her costly presents. Jones finds a beautiful lavaliere, which be gives to Mabel, and wins her heart. He is chosen as the foreman of a jury, and when petty offenders are brought to trial turns a deaf ear to all pleas for mercy, gaining the hatred of the other jurors. Finally a man is brought up who is to he tried for stealing the necklace Jones found. A strong case is shown, and all the other jurors want to find him guilty, but Jones holds out for an acquittal. Mabel comes into the court room and sits alongside of the complainant. The necklace is seen and an uproar takes place. Jones is accused as a thief and in a highly melodramatic manner takes a huge vial from his pocket, drinks the contents and falls back dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-22
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The Bowling Match
Overview: An amusing bowling match between Messrs. Sauer and Kraut. The balls and pins are manipulated by an electric magnet and perform some queer antics. There is, of course, the usual roughhouse finish, with Ford and Mabel in the important parts. Good fun, without offense.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-29
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The Cure That Failed
Overview: George is addicted to the flowing cup, and his friends all try to reform him. His intentions are good, but his will is weak and he cannot resist the companionship of bibulous friends. Drastic measures are resorted to, to cure him. One of his friends dresses as a woman, who presents a fierce aspect. When George awakens he is told that while under the influence of liquor he has married his woman, and she proceeds to assert herself. George is in a terrible mental state, but finally he sees the shoe of the "woman" who has forgotten to change those pedal protectors, and the scheme dawns upon him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-13
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An Interrupted Elopement
Overview: This is quite like "Helen's Marriage" which came out a few months earlier in 1912. Once again, Edward Dillon is trying to elope with Mabel Normand, but papa interferes. The big joke is when Ford Sterling and Elmer Booth kidnap the minister in order to marry Dillon and Normand. They mistakingly get Papa instead. It is the one strong gag in the film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-14
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The Hansom Driver
Overview: Mabel's husband is a hansom cab driver. After a quarrel Mabel imagines herself neglected, and listens to the honeyed words of a tempter, and finally agrees to elope 'with him. A boy is sent for a cab, and the innocent youth calls the husband. The vehicle drives up and the couple run into it, their identity unnoticed by the driver, and they absorbed in each other, not noting the man on the seat. Hubby glances into the mirror reflecting the interior of the cab, and the fun starts. A comical fight takes place between the two men, and the would-be home breaker is soundly thrashed, and penitent Mabel is taken back to her husband's arms.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-09
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Heinze’s Resurrection
Overview: Heinze is lazy, and his wife is disgusted with him. His friend, Pat, secretly admires Mrs. Heinze, and one day tells her to make Heinze help her with her work. Heinze refuses to assist her and is doused with a pail of water. Angered, he leaves the house and meets Pat, to whom he tells his troubles Pat advises him to play off dead, to see if his wife loves him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-17
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Just Brown’s Luck
Overview: Brown is troubled with an over-abundance of affection, and his wife and mother-in-law convince him of their displeasure in many ways. Brown has a friend who has never met Brown's folks, and becomes acquainted with Mrs. Brown while she is with her mother. He invites them for an automobile ride and manages to start up the automobile as soon as Mrs. Brown has seated herself, leaving her mother behind. That worthy lady, however, runs after the machine and refuses to get lost. The friend has sent word to Brown to meet him at a restaurant, and Brown has a lot of nice champagne iced and awaits his guests. He is thunderstruck when his wife walks in, soon followed by his mother-in-law, who sit down to enjoy his hospitality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-03
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Love and Pain
Overview: Jones is engaged to a jealous girl, Ethel. His stenographer has a fainting spell in his office and Jones attempts to revive her. Ethel walks into the office and sees the girl in Jones' arms and bounces out. She sends Jones a note breaking her engagement, and in despair he attempts to commit suicide.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-17
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Love Sickness at Sea
Overview: Mabel, her father and Mr. Tra La La, a suitor, much to her disgust, for her hand, take a trip on the coast steamer, "Harvard." Mr. Short, his rival, follows them. He, with the connivance of the ship's captain, gives Mr. Tra La La a most strenuous and ludicrous trip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-06
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The Sleuths at the Floral Parade
Overview: Advantage was taken of the fact that a floral parade was being held at Pasadena, Cal. in which the Keystone car was entered and won second prize, to produce a comedy film around the incident. Fred Mace and Mabel Normand are invited to take part in the parade, and Mack Sennett plans to keep her away and take her place Accordingly Mabel is locked up in her dressing room. But she escapes after considerable difficulty. She rushes to the line of march and makes frantic and amusing efforts to catch the Keystone automobile while the two sleuths attempt to dodge her. Mabel gets into difficulties with the police who are endeavoring to maintain order, and is championed by Ford Sterling, who is among the spectators.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-06
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Mabel’s Awful Mistakes
Overview: Mabel has two suitors, Smith and Jones. Smith is an elderly man who impetuously sweeps everything before him, and his dashing ways win Mabel's heart. Poor Jones is downcast when he learns that Mabel is to marry Smith, and follows Smith home. He learns that Smith is already married and has ten little children.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-12
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Those Good Old Days
Overview: His subjects have been vainly petitioning the king for improvements in his reign, without avail. The king pays too much attention to the sweetheart of a country bumpkin who shows his resentment by chasing his royal highness with a pistol and perforating the royal legs. The king takes refuge in the top of a tree, from which ignominious position he is finally rescued by his courtiers. In consideration of the bumpkin promising not to tell the queen of this latest escapade, the king grants the petition of his subjects.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-07
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A Midnight Elopement
Overview: Jim Smith and Sallie Rice are very much in love with each other, but her father vehemently shows his disapproval of Jim. An elopement is planned, and at midnight Jim has the country magistrate waiting for him at the cross roads. He goes to tap on Sallie's window, but makes a mistake and awakens old man Rice, who, clad in his pajamas, pursues him with a shot-gun, and as Jim joins the magistrate, takes a pot shot at them, which finds lodgement in the judge's back. When Rice finds out what he has done, he is in fear of the law, but Jim pays the judge to settle the matter on condition that Rice gives his consent to his daughter's marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-09
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Baby Day
Overview: A short silent comedy starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-25
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Oh, Mabel Behave
Overview: Squire Peachem (Ford Sterling) wants to marry the innkeeper's daughter (Normand). Since Peachem has a hefty mortgage on the inn, he thinks he can use it to effect a union, but the girl is not interested in him. She already has a sweetheart, handsome Randolph Roanoke (Owen Moore). Peachem and his dumb-as-dirt assistant, Blaa Blaa (Sennett), try to keep Roanoke and Mabel apart. Their feeble attempts are in vain, and Mabel easily manages to outwit them and win the man she loves. - Janiss Garza
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-20
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The Tragedy of a Dress Suit
Overview: A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Dell Henderson & Mabel Normand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-14
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The Battle of Who Run
Overview: A Civil war comedy starring Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand. The film is considered lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-06
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The Mistaken Masher
Overview: Georgie Burns is a conceited, athletic individual, who has turned his home into a gymnasium. His pretty wife is exceedingly vexed but cannot cure him of his love for strenuous sports. A forlorn tramp comes to the floor begging for a meal, and George promptly knocks him down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-27
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Red Hot Romance
Overview: A burlesque of a Spanish courtship, in which two rivals for the hand of a beautiful senorita battle with each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-27
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Saving Mabel’s Dad
Overview: Three rivals are aspirants for the hand of Mabel. Dad falls asleep in a rowboat and is set adrift by one, who tries to win favor as a hero by rescuing him, using a motorboat going at lightning speed. He is exposed, however, and his work goes for naught, as Mabel clings to the man of her choice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-06
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His Chum the Baron
Overview: Smith's chum is a very poor Baron. Smith and the Baron are invited to a ball, and the Baron, not having evening clothes of his own, "borrows" Smith's dress suit. He is having the time of his life when Smith arrives, thoroughly angry, and taking the Baron in a room takes the clothes away from him. The Baron is in a terrible predicament, dodging around from room to room, as people intrude upon his hiding places. He tries to hide his face with a handkerchief, and a lady catches a glimpse of him as he dives under a bed. She screams in terror, thinking he is a mad man, and then the poor Baron is chased all over the house. Someone telephones for the police and they assist in the capture and lead him away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-28
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How Hiram Won Out
Overview: Hiram, a country youth, is in love with Sallie. They go fishing and Sallie falls into the water. Hiram cannot swim, so he runs to the road and stops an automobile, driven by Alfred, a city chap. The latter rescues Sallie, and she feels grateful to him. His attentions to Sallie are not displeasing, and Hiram becomes insanely jealous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-13
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The Speed Queen
Overview: Nellie's father is a judge, afflicted with a species of St. Vitus' dance. When he feels an attack coming on he takes a dose of medicine which always brings relief. One day he forgets the medicine, and feeling the attack coming on he sends Nellie home for the medicine. She jumps into her auto and drives like the wind, pursued by two bicycle cops. One of the cops is a rejected suitor, and he hopes to catch her and arrest her, for spite. The other cop is the accepted lover, and he rides to save her. Amusing situations are shown while the trio are riding at terrific speed. Nellie is arrested, but is released upon the plea of her sweetheart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-12
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Zuzu, the Band Leader
Overview: A comedy short with Ford Sterling impersonating a band leader and a flirtatious Mabel Normand creating trouble between her admirer, Caesar, and the leader.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-24
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Hogan's Romance Upset
Overview: Charles Murray out romancing in the park.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-13
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The Galloping Fish
Overview: Freddy Wetherill and his bride, Hyla, quarrel at her mother's beach cottage, and Hyla sends her new husband home alone. Seeking distraction from his troubles, Freddy enters a vaudeville theater where Undine, "the diving Venus," and her trained seal, Bubbles, are performing. Outside the theater, Freddy meets Undine's fiancé, George Fitzgerald, and becomes involved in George's effort to hide Undine's seal from a bill collector armed with an order of attachment because of an unpaid hotel bill. Complications arise when Freddy Wetherill's dying rich uncle, Cato Dodd, notifies him that he wants Hyla to nurse him. To insure he stays in his uncle's will, Freddy substitutes Undine for Hyla and takes George along to act as his "valet." Naturally, Bubbles comes along, too. This movie is presumed to be lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-10
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The Doctored Affair
Overview: Harry and Tillie are preparing to elope when her dad appears and boots his would-be son-in-law out of the house. Tillie is locked up in her room, and to regain her liberty feigns illness and apparently swoons. Dad is troubled and telephones for a doctor. Harry, who is hovering around the corner, sees the doctor coming and bribes him to help him in a scheme to see Tillie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-27
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Foiling Fickle Father
Overview: A short comedy starring Mabel Normand. It is now considered lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-13
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